Dirk Laser
Consultant at NETWAYS
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDirk Laser is a consultant and former Principal Consultant/Manager with 13 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, systems automation, and secure monitoring operations based in Nuremberg, Germany. He has deep expertise integrating security (SELinux) into production monitoring with contributions to the Icinga2 core and improving reliability via systemd and notification tooling. Dirk has automated provisioning and remote execution across Debian and SUSE using Foreman templates and Puppet, including enabling non-root execution and Redis-backed caching to scale Rails-based Foreman deployments. His work spans both scripting and configuration-as-code, and he routinely bridges operational concerns with developer-friendly tooling and plugin integrations. Colleagues know him for pragmatic infrastructure improvements that reduce operational risk while adding flexible integrations like NetBox, Vault, and SSH into management workflows.
13 years of coding experience
Expert of Computer Science, Netzwerk- und Systemadministration/Administrator, 3, Expert of Computer Science, Netzwerk- und Systemadministration/Administrator, 3 at Möbel Fischer
Github Skills (24)
puppeteer10
puppet10
configuration-management10
bash10
ruby10
selinux10
ssh10
foreman9
redis9
monitoring9
ruby-rails9
rails9
automation9
automations9
debian8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
theforeman/community-templates
Aug 2016 - Jan 2019
A place to share templates for various OSes for Foreman's provisioning
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dirk's contributions primarily involve modifying and creating templates for provisioning via Foreman. Their work includes adjusting existing templates for package management across different operating systems like Debian and Suse, as well as adding support for non-root users in remote execution scenarios. Furthermore, the user added various puppet job templates. Their focus centers on automating and streamlining system configuration using tools like Puppet and SSH.
placeprovisioningshareforeman
Icinga/icinga2
Sep 2014 - Feb 2020
The core of our monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language and REST API.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 74 commits, 23 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dirk primarily focused on improving the SELinux policy for the Icinga2 monitoring platform. Their contributions involved adding file contexts, ports, and roles to the SELinux configuration, and also modifying the related shell scripts. The user's work demonstrates expertise in integrating SELinux security measures within the Icinga2 system, likely to ensure secure and reliable operation of the monitoring platform. The user also made small changes to systemd service files and URL encoding in the mail notifications scripts.
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